Thank you for your interest in connecting with RG Michigan!

Resource Generation is a community of young people with wealth and/or class privilege organizing for economic justice. We redistribute personal & inherited wealth to movements and solidarity economy work–while using our social capital to support economic justice campaigns.

In Michigan, we have been organizing for several years, primarily in Detroit and Washtenaw County. In 2022, we decided to combine our Ann Arbor and Detroit chapters and launch work across the state.

What are our core activities/areas of work?

Praxis: 6-month cohorts of 6-8 RGers where they define their values and build a redistribution plan, while learning about the socioeconomic systems that drive economic inequality and wealth hoarding. We typically run 1 to 2 praxis cohorts a year.

Campaigns: In 2023, we joined the Fund MI Future campaign. Through this coalition, we can advocate for a graduated income tax in Michigan and build our knowledge about how tax evasion and regressive taxation policies can promote wealth hoarding. In 2024, RG national launched a campaign on housing, and we are in the process of joining the Rent is Too Damn High Coalition as a campaign partner.

Campus Organizing: Over half of the undergraduate students at University of Michigan – Ann Arbor are RG constituents (come from the top 10%). In Feb 2025 we will be hosting a Solidarity Economy conference at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, in partnership with the Ginsberg Center. Leading up to that, we are meeting with student groups and holding events in partnership with academic units to build momentum, recruit conference co-organizers, and establish longer-term relationships.

Redistribution Partnership: We build relationships with organizations in the area (at a pace of 1 per year for the time being) to resource their work with redistributed wealth. We build our capacity as fundraisers and learn about the work of our partners as we build our partnership. Our current chapter partners are:

• Peace House Ypsi
• Rent is Too Damn High Coalition
• Previously we also partnered with the Transforming Power Fund.

What is our chapter’s size and scope?

RG Michigan is considered a medium-sized chapter in the RG Ecosystem, with around 25-30 members. Members attend quarterly meetings and organize events for the chapter and with partners. RG MI member leaders convene the Organizing Table three times a month for one hour to strategize, check-in, build relationships, and synthesize action items. We have two teams: “Partners + Campaigns” and “Basebuilding.”

Our chapter is characterized by mostly wealthy people without very much access to their wealth or without very high incomes–so we focus a lot on family organizing. We have a few High Net Wealth members and a few members who grew up working class or middle class but are now in the top 10%. We are prioritizing relational organizing that expands our presence and multiracial membership on campuses and from higher incomes.

Would you like to have a 1:1 or join our email list? Let us know here:

• Intake form (✔️ Michigan chapter): resourcegeneration.org/join-rg/resource-generation-intake-form/
• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/rgmichigan
• Email: rgmichigan@resourcegeneration.org
• IG: rg_michigan
• Signal Group: request to be added after a 1:1.